• Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the economy, immigration and how to shore up Social Security

    Sen. Elizabeth Warren on the economy, immigration and how to shore up Social Security

    Feb 22, 2023 11:40 PM EDT

    Consumer protection drove Sen. Elizabeth Warren's academic work, launched her entrance into politics, and served as a central plank in her 2020 run for president. In President Biden's State of the Union, he pledged to tackle something long on Warren's issue list, junk fees. The senator joined Amna Nawaz to discuss that effort, the economy,...

  • What is Title 42 and what does it mean for immigration at the southern border?

    What is Title 42 and what does it mean for immigration at the southern border?

    Jan 13, 2023 02:14 PM EDT

    President Joe Biden visited the U.S.-Mexico border on Sunday for the first time as president, amid controversy and backlash about the administration’s allocation of resources to the southern border. The visit came days after he announced a new, restrictive policy that would essentially expand an immigration program ...

  • A Brief But Spectacular take on embracing immigration

    A Brief But Spectacular take on embracing immigration

    Jan 08, 2023 10:30 PM EDT

    ... out of school days just to go to immigration court hearings, just to go to asylum interviews. At a certain point, I knew more about immigration policy than any 11-year-old should have. Being black and brown and experiencing the immigration processing system is not just a difficult journey ...

  • WATCH: White House holds news briefing after Biden announces new immigration restrictions

    WATCH: White House holds news briefing after Biden announces new immigration restrictions

    Jan 05, 2023 06:55 PM EDT

    ... legally from there." It was Biden's boldest move yet to confront spiraling arrivals at the U.S. border with Mexico, a major change to immigration rules that will stand even if the U.S. Supreme Court ends a Trump-era public health law that allows American authorities to turn ...

  • WATCH: DHS Secretary Mayorkas outlines Biden's new restrictive immigration plan

    WATCH: DHS Secretary Mayorkas outlines Biden's new restrictive immigration plan

    Jan 05, 2023 06:18 PM EDT

    ... place for now. White House officials say they still believe the restrictions should end, but they believe they can continue to turn away migrants under immigration law. The president has seen the numbers of migrants crossing the U.S.-Mexico border rise dramatically during his two years in office; there ...

  • UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vows to halve inflation, tackle illegal immigration

    UK Prime Minister Rishi Sunak vows to halve inflation, tackle illegal immigration

    Jan 04, 2023 10:15 PM EDT

    LONDON (AP) — British Prime Minister Rishi Sunak pledged to halve inflation, grow the U.K. economy and stop illegal immigration Wednesday as he set out his Conservative government's priorities in his first major speech of 2023. Sunak focused on tackling the U.K.'s slowing economy and made promises ...

  • Supreme Court keeps pandemic-era immigration limits in place indefinitely

    Supreme Court keeps pandemic-era immigration limits in place indefinitely

    Dec 27, 2022 09:31 PM EDT

    ... when a judge ordered last year that Trump’s “Remain in Mexico” policy to make asylum-seekers wait in Mexico for hearings in U.S. immigration court be reinstated, it did so with such limited scope that it had little impact. That policy ended in August after the administration prevailed ...

  • U.S. asks court to end immigration asylum limits -- after Christmas

    U.S. asks court to end immigration asylum limits -- after Christmas

    Dec 20, 2022 11:22 PM EDT

    ... more surveillance and increased security at ports of entry. About 23,000 agents are currently deployed to the southern border, according to the White House. Immigration advocates have said that the Title 42 restrictions, imposed under provisions of a 1944 health law, go against American and international obligations to people ...

  • U.S. immigration officials face surge of asylum seekers near El Paso

    U.S. immigration officials face surge of asylum seekers near El Paso

    Dec 13, 2022 11:40 PM EDT

    ... you are about to have a divided Congress in the new year. Republicans will hold the House majority. Where is there any hope of bipartisan immigration reform in the form of legislation? What Republicans do you know who will work with you on that? Rep. Veronica Escobar: Well, here's ...

  • U.K. interior minister faces backlash, criticism after calling illegal immigration an ‘invasion’

    U.K. interior minister faces backlash, criticism after calling illegal immigration an ‘invasion’

    Nov 01, 2022 08:09 PM EDT

    Britain's interior minister is facing criticism for describing migrants crossing the English Channel in small boats as an "invasion."